Does anyone know how I, in Canada, can outsmart Hulu.com and other sites that engage in geoblocking? It won't let me access anything anymore. For a while I was successful using Hotspot Shield, but now Hulu tells me it knows what I'm doing.
And why are these sites (others include Comedy Central and NBC.com) blocked to foreigners anyway? Is it a federal regulation?
Thanks!
Try to find an American buddy who leaves his computer on all the time, and then set up a VPN. VPN over to his computer and it will look like you're coming from there. But you'll be eating his bandwidth.
For the most part, you can no more "hide" your IP address on the internet than you can order a pizza to be delivered and "hide" your address from the pizza parlor. The most you can do is give a different address, and have the dude who lives there bring the pizza to you. (Tor is a just a really complicated version of this.)
The sites are blocked because content owners divide up the Earth and sell licenses to different countries individually. Hulu would love to show video to everyone on Earth, but they don't have the legal right to do it. Often, even the networks don't have international rights to some shows they air. Anyway, it has nothing to do with the government.
